Car stake



Oct. i4, 1924. y 14,5%413 T. W. MCAULEY CAR STAKE Filed Sent. 22, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l Jl l i w m OJ u EI- J run/ENTOR` g THOMAS w mamy AT YS Patented Oct. 14, 1924.

THOMAS WILLIAM MGAULEY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR STAKE.

Application filed September 272, 1993. Serial No. 664,194.

To all whom it' may concern.'

Be it known that I, THOMAS WILLIAM MGAULEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city'of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Stakes, of which the following is the speciication.

My invention relates to improvements in ycar stakes and the object of the invention is to devise stakes applicable to flat cars used for carrying lumber that .can be simultaneously released to facilitate the unloading of the lumber therefrom. A further object is to devise a stake which will be held rigidlyv in position when the lumber is loaded on the car. And a still further object is to devise means for simultaneously locking and unlocking the stakes in their engaged and disengaged position.

My invention consists of a car stake constructed and arranged as hereinafter more particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of a car provided with stakes constructed according to my invention, said car being broken away intermediately.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of one of the longitudinal members of the car showing one of my stakes applied thereto.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of my stake receiving sockets.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the tongue members for holding the stake in the socket, and

Fig. 5 is an elevational view partly in section showing the means for simultaneously actuating the tongues into the engaged or disengaged position in the sockets.

Likecharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

1 are longitudinal members of the car provided on their exterior faces with the stake receiving sockets 2, said stake receiving sockets being open on their outer sides and the side walls being provided with registering slots 3 extending therethrough.

The backs 4 of the sockets have laterally disposed grooves 5 therein in the vicinity of where they join the bottoms 6.

7 are depending portions on they side walls of the sockets provided with registering orifices 8 extending therethrough. 9 are independent pipe members rotatably mounted in the brackets 10 secured to the longitudinal members 1 of the car, said pipe members extending from the ends of the car to its cen* tre through the orifices 8 in the depending portion 7 of. the sockets 2.

11 are spindles rotatably mounted at the opposite ends of the car in bearing plates 12 and 13 respectively, the bearing plates 12 being secured tothe end members of the ycar and the bearing plates 13 to the longitudinal members 1 thereof, said spindles 11 being provided with any suitable means whereby they may be turned, such as the holes 14.

15 are reduced portions of the spindle adapted to be rotatably mounted in the bearing members 13 and the inner ends 16 of such spindles being threaded into nuts 17 which are in turn suitably secured to the outer ends of the pipe members 9. The threaded portion of each spindle is of reduced diameter and a collar 19 is constituted between it and the reduced portion 15.

20 are the car stakes preferably of a tubular material having their lower portions 21 separate and inserted into the tubular upper portions and preferably secured thereto by rivets 22. The bottom of the tubular stakes 20 engaging collars 23 on the lower portions 2l and such lower portions having outwardly curved back faces 24 terminating in transverse ridges 25 adapted to engage the grooves 5. The backs 4 of the sockets 2 being outwardly curved towards their lower ends correspond with the curvature in the back faces of the lower portions 21 of the stakes. The upper ends of the stakes 20 are provided with suitable rings 26 to which are attached chains 27 which extend over the logs or other lumber on the car to the opposite stakes.

28 are tongue brackets suitably secured to the pipe members 9 and provided with tongues 29 adapted to extend rearwardly in the case of the rear pipe members 9 and forwardly in the case of the forward pipe members 9.

Assuming that the stakes are in position as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing, in order to unload the car it is necessary to' remove the stakes from one side thereof and this is achieved by inserting any suitable handle into the holes 14 in the spindles 11 and turning such spindles in the required direction. Then this is done as the spindles are held aga-inst longitudinal movement by the collar 19 it is obvious that the nuts 17 will be unscrewed on the threaded portions 16 thereof. v

The pipe members 9 are rotatably and slidably mounted in the brackets l() and depending flanges 7 of the socket members and consequently as the spindles -l1 are turned the unscrewing of the members 17 will move the latter forwardly or rearwardly as the case may be, and as the tongue members 2S are flxedly secured to such pipe members they will be moved out of engagement with the slots 3 in the socket members through which they normally extend when the stakes are in position. W'hen such tongues are withdrawn from "the socket members the lower ends of th'e stakes will be permitted to be forced out of the sockets and thus permit the logs or lumber on the car to be unloaded with a minimum of labour. This can be done witho-ut removing the chains 27 from the upper ends of the stakes.

In order to replace the stakes in the sockets it is merely necessary to insert the lower portions 21 into the sockets so that the transverse ridges in the feet thereof will engage the grooves in the back of the sockets and by turning the spindles 11 in the required "direction the pipe members 9 will be drawn backwardly or forwardly as the case may be and such tongues 29 on the tongue members 2O will again be inserted into the slots 3 in the' sockets and thus bridge the open outer sides thereof, effectively holding the stakes against either outward or' vertical displacement. A

From the above description it will be seen tha-tl have devised a simple and effective means for simultaneously dismounting the stakes from flat cars in'order to facilitate the removal of lumber therefrom. I

Further I have devised such'means which can if desired be operated at both ends for unloading the whole car or one half the stakes can be removed in case it is only desired to unload half the car.

What I claim as my invention is.

1. The combination with a flat car, of stake receiving socket members secured to the sides thereof, said socket members open on `their outer sides, upwardly extending stakes having their lower endsinserted into the socket members, stake releasing means normally closing the open side of each socket member and means for preventing the vertical displacement of the stakes from the socket members upon the stake releasing means being in the engaged position.v

2. The ycombination with a flat' car, of stake receiving socket .members secured to the sides thereof, said socket members o-pen on their outer sides, upwardly extending stakes having their lower ends inserted yinto .the socket 'members sta-ke releasing means normally closing the open side of each socket member and independent means situated in the front and rear end of the car for actuating'the stake releasing means, the front end actuating means operating the stake releasing means for the forward so'cket'memfbers in unison and the rear end actuating means actuating the rear stake lreleasing means in unison.

3. The combination withv a flat car, of a plurality of independent stake receiving socket members secured to the sides thereof, saidfsoc-ket members Loperi on their outer sides, upwardly extending stakes having their lower ends insertedr into the socket members, each of said socket members having registering slots in the opposite sides thereof, a stake having its lower end inserted into the soc-ketmember, a slidable tongue member inserted into the registering slots for holding the stake against outward displacement and a transverse ridge formed on `the inner face of the foot of the stake engaging a corresponding slot in theback face of the socket member.

THOMAS WILLIAM MCAULEY. Y 

